Requirements

To set up Tenable Sensor Proxy, ensure you meet the following requirements:

Software Requirements

• Supported operating systems:
  • Oracle Linux 7, 8, and 9
  • RHEL 7, 8, and 9
  • Tenable Core

• Set up Tenable Sensor Proxy on your network where sensors can reach it internally and where Tenable Sensor Proxy can reach Tenable Vulnerability Management or Tenable Security Center directly with outbound traffic.

Note: Tenable Sensor Proxy does not support content delivery network (CDN)-based scan reports from Tenable Nessus Agents.

Hardware Requirements

Scenario	Minimum Recommended Hardware
Tenable Sensor Proxy with up to 50,000 sensors connected to Tenable Vulnerability Management	CPU: 4 2GHz cores Memory: 8 GB RAM Disk space: 100 GB
Tenable Sensor Proxy with more than 50,000 sensors connected to Tenable Vulnerability Management Note: Each instance of Tenable Sensor Proxy can support up to 100,000 linked sensors.	CPU: 4 2GHz cores Memory: 16 GB RAM Disk space: 100 GB
Tenable Sensor Proxy with up to 1,000 Tenable Web App Scanning scanners connected to Tenable Security Center	CPU: 4 2GHz cores Memory: 16 GB RAM Disk space: 100 GB

Note: Heavy usage of Tenable Sensor Proxy can cause the NGINX access log to grow substantially. Tenable recommends setting up log rotation to prevent running out of disk space.

Tenable Products

• You must have a Tenable Vulnerability Management account or a Tenable Security Center account.
• For Tenable Vulnerability Management, you must have Tenable Nessus Agents or Tenable Nessus scanners. For Tenable Security Center, you must have Tenable Web App Scanning scanners.